How Many Trips/How Many Kings in 2015

Grey Beard, 

I can recall off hand only around 5-8 that had clips the rest had their adipose fin.  I talked to the federal surveyors after one of the better outings in September and I asked them what their percentage was natural vs. clipped and they told me it was 70/30.  I have not seen any Lakers banged up from rooting the bottom and actually the three we kept Sunday had smelt in their stomachs.  The big brown we got was full of alewives and I got two small chinooks 8-10'' that both had their adipose fin (both in front of the power plant).  All I know is this year is going to be very interesting for the size of chinooks seeing the average size is 12-17lbs and it's only May.  One of the Lakers and Chinooks I got earlier last week even had skein developing in it.

Princecraft: When I saw that you had pictures of 28 kings I wondered if you looked to see how many had their adipose fin?

I didn't keep track last year like I had in the past. Most of my kings had their adipose fin. Our best day was 10, 8 were mature and all had thier adipose fin. The other two were clipped. First outing this season 3 kings with adipose fins and the big one got away. Nice, really nice that some were around. All the doom and gloom we were wondering if we would get any especially this early.

The kings had alewife. The coho had gobies and unlike the kings are adaptive eaters. Kings are pelagic and won't scrape the bottom for food. Have you caught a Lake with a banged up nose from rooting throught the rocks after gobies?

Grey Beard

spent a lot of time on the water last year and just from looking back at pictures i had 28 that got their pics taken but no clue how many others were caught.  best day was 10-13 with a 6 rod spread